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After Microsoft’s U-turn on Kinect hacking, the corporate giant made the source code available for developers this month so that they could start to write applications for Windows 7 using the gesture controls of the Kinect system. The tool set was called Kinect for Windows SDK and...

Laura took some time off this week and left the show in the hands of Adam & Paul. These are some of the stories that the boys found to share with you: Link Removed Kinect Operation Link Removed Adam & Paul's project: Link Removed Keep in touch with your favorite Microsoft hosts and...

Hi I have steam, Last week I noticed my steam account was showing hours of gaming time for games that I always use and some games I haven't played at all. Then the other day I got home and saw "This Account is Currently Being used Elsewhere", and according to my Profile I was playing...

Hacking the Xbox 360 Kinect is all about baby steps on the way to what could ultimately amount to some pretty useful homebrew. Here's a good example cooked up by some kids at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group attempting to redefine the human-machine interactive experience. DepthJS is a...

Challenge complete! One hacker got Microsoft's Kinect working with Windows 7 thanks to an open-source driver. More...

Hi folks…. Well the time has come where the S**t hits the fan….. You guy have helped me big time with issues… I’ve hinted once or twice that my main problem has been a hacker targeting my PC over the past 2 or 3yrs running… as I learned and discovered how to combat the assailant…...

{Mike.. I just found out why I couldn't post (forget my private message) ... per my current needs I changed my email which has all to do with my question..} Hi folks I've found that with MS outlook w/gmail can encrypt you incoming and outgoing email… unfortunatly I've been using...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Thousands of online banking customers have had their accounts drained by a sophisticated new computer virus, internet security Experts say the virus represents a new level of sophistication Around £675,000 was taken from a "large UK financial institution" over...

Justin Bieber's Twitter page has become the target of an internet joke. A public vote on the Canadian singer's My World Tour page asked users which country he should tour next, with no restrictions on the nations that could be voted on. This spurred users of imageboard website 4Chan to...

Security researchers from antivirus vendor ESET have uncovered a simple tool automating the creation of botnets that can be controlled from Twitter. The botnet clients can be commanded to launch Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks or install additional malware on the compromised...

I have a couple of Sony Sx 46 IC recorders that I need to connect via USB port to my Windows 7 laptop. Sony supplies drivers for XP and Vista but has shown no interest in supplying them for Windows 7 64 bit. :( Are there any software utilities that can somehow make either the XP or Vista driver...

Link Removed due to 404 Error Computer Security Advances don't just come from malicious attacks that are subsequently patched by software programmers. They are also the result of more genial attempts to hack into commonly used apps. Sometimes people even throw hacking competitions to see who can...

Ive had my PC for 5 weeks. I have Windows 7. Yesterday, after instaling/applying new updates a prompt came up on the screen after I booted up. It was a prompt, asking me to select which network I wanted to connect a Home Group to. I selected Public of course, as I am the only PC in my home...

Link Removed Some of you might have seen today's story by Gregg Keizer of our sister publication Computerworld headlined "Link Removed due to 404 Error" and may have asked the same question I asked. Two minutes? Dutch hacker Peter Vreugdenhil broke into the current edition of the Web browser...

March 25, 2010 (Dutch researcher explains his strategy for outwitting Microsoft defense mechanisms to win $ 10,000) Peter Vreugdenhil of the Netherlands bypasses DEP & ASLER to bring down Microsoft's Browser. And another German Researcher who wouldn't give his full name, called Nils found a...

We handle confidential personal or business data almost every day. In order to to avoid being hacked, I am trying to figure out how to protect our data. Encryptng data is an easy answer but repeated encrytion and decryption of data everyday would be inconvenient chores. I am wondering how you...

Criminal Hacker "Iceman" gets 13 years. Former "Security Researcher- Max Butler" has been sentenced to 13 years for hacking into a financial institutions and stealing credit card account numbers.

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Support was discontinued after windows xp. However, windows vista had found updated drivers during auto-update. With windows 7 there are no drivers found. Any help would be appreciated. If some guru would like to help by hacking the windows xp .ini files, I could send the installation file to you.